Swinder Singh
About Swinder Singh
Swinder Singh appears as counsel of record in 4 reported Malaysia judgments (2025). These were heard before MYCOA (3) and MYHC (1).
On the court record
The reported matters span civil-procedure and succession work and serious criminal defence, grounded in High Court and Court of Appeal judgments.
Swinder Singh's reported matters span civil procedure and the law of agency and succession on the one hand, and criminal-defence appeals on the other, argued in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. A civil decision was determined on a question of law under Order 14A of the Rules of Court 2012, where the court, on its own motion and dispensing with viva voce evidence, disposed of the dispute on points of law. Appearing for the defendant, the central questions were whether a power of attorney survived the death of the donor, to which the answer was no, and the effect of an incomplete inter vivos disposition, so that the matter turned on settled principles of agency and property rather than contested facts.
Criminal-defence work forms the other strand. In related Court of Appeal appeals against a conviction for trafficking in dangerous drugs under section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, the issues included the pre-condition under section 32(1)(i) of the Evidence Act 1950 and the significance of the absence of forensic investigation, such as the lifting of fingerprints and DNA from the drugs. Appearing for the appellant, the Court, after considering the grounds of the High Court judge, the written and oral submissions and the evidence as a whole, upheld the conviction and affirmed the decision below.
A thread across these decisions is the testing of legal entitlement and criminal liability by close analysis, whether by determining as a pure question of law that authority under a power of attorney ends on death, or by probing whether the absence of forensic linkage to the drugs undermines a trafficking conviction. The matters were argued in the High Court and before the Court of Appeal of Malaysia, and the reported work sits across civil procedure, agency and succession, and serious criminal defence, grounded in the judgments.
How many cases has Swinder Singh appeared in?
Swinder Singh appears as counsel of record in 4 reported Malaysia judgments (2025).
Which courts does Swinder Singh appear in?
Swinder Singh appears before MYCOA (3) and MYHC (1).
What areas of law feature in Swinder Singh's reported cases?
They span civil procedure and the law of agency and succession, including a determination under Order 14A on whether a power of attorney survives the donor's death, and criminal-defence appeals against a conviction for drug trafficking under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
What did the Order 14A determination decide?
On a question of law disposed of without oral evidence, the Court answered that a power of attorney did not survive the death of the donor and considered the effect of an incomplete inter vivos disposition; he appeared for the defendant.
What issue arose in the drug-trafficking appeals?
The pre-condition under section 32(1)(i) of the Evidence Act 1950 and the significance of the absence of forensic investigation, such as fingerprints and DNA on the drugs; appearing for the appellant, the Court upheld the conviction.